Middle East.- Schickard (Wilhelm) Tarich h.e. Series regum Persiae, Ab Ardschir-Babekan, usq; ad Jazdigerdem à Chaliphis expulsum, per annos ferè 400, first edition, woodcut initials, with Arabic and Hebrew text and 4 woodcuts of Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy in text, title and first few leaves slightly frayed at edges, A.S.Tritton's copy with his ink signature to front free endpaper, modern half calf over marbled boards, small 4to, Tubingen, Dietrich Werlin, 1628.

⁂ History of the Persian kings of the Sassanian Empire, from Ardeshir I to Yazdegerd, translated into Latin from an Arabic chronicle by the German polymath Wilhelm Schickard (1592-1635), astronomer, linguist, mathematician, minister, and Professor of Hebrew at Tübingen. Schickard also designed the Arabic type used here, one of the earliest produced in Northern Europe, and prepared his own illustrations. A variant issue of this book has additional chronological, location, subject, and author indices but is without the errata on the verso of the final leaf, as here.

A.S.Tritton (1881-1973), Professor of Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies.